I really like this quote… it is lifted from the conclusion of a podcast mini-series by Patrick Radden Keefe titled “Wind of Change”. I wrote it down a year ago and came across it while looking for something else. I wrote it down before I could have guessed how many new conspiracy theories I would hear. It expresses why I feel so impatient with them.

That’s the nature of a conspiracy theory, it’s impossible to prove, but also impossible to disprove, so if you have the temperament and the time you can devote yourself to solving it for the rest of your life. But if you’re a person whose livelihood depends on the slow and steady accretion of provable facts then there’s a madness in chasing a story like this. And there’s something about the moment we’re living in when everyday the nature of truth is called into question that make me feel like the stakes of solving this slightly ridiculous story are greater somehow than the story itself. (…) The rabbit hole is beautiful but it is deep.